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CONFUCIUS SAY:
"Beaufort News Most
Interesting Weekly
In North Carolina."
VOLUME XXVIII; NO. 8.
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OIL COMPANY'S
TANKS AT PORT
SOON BE READY
Completed Outlay
To Cost Over
$50,000
WIND-BUCKLED TANK
IS STRAIGHTENED OUT
After eight working days
a crew of nine men under the
direction of Field Superin
tendent W. W. Nelson of Ga
ry Steel Corporation of Nor
folk, had by Monday of this
week completely erected a
quarter of a million gallon
steel tank at Morehead City
Port Terminal and half way
erected another tank of simi
lar size. In the meantime
the first tank which was
buckled in a bit by the south
west sale of last week was
shapened out again.
A third tank to have a capacity
of a half million gallons will be
erected between the one now un
...instruction and the railroad
nice track to tin; north. The three
tanks and the plant when complet
ed will he the property of the Hat
terns Oil Company and will lie
used to hold oil products to be use 1
in making asphalt. The initial out
lay or cost of erection of three
tanks is expected to run about
$15,000. That is only a part of
the total costs however, which has
- unofficially been estimuted at over
150,000. When the tanks are com
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Seventeen Persons
Appointed By Hoey
To R. & H. Congress
Aycock Brown, editor of The
Beaufort News, Stanley Wood
land, of Morehead City Port Com
mission and Victor Meekins, of
Dare County Times, of Manteo,
were three of the 17 delegates ap
pointed a few days ago by Govern
or Hoey to represent North Caro
lina at the 35th annual Rivers and
Harbors Conference at the May
flower Hotel in Washington on
March 14 and 15.
The Congress was organized to
promote development of rivers
and harbors plans. H. E. Boyd of
Wilmington, one of the delegates
appointed by the Governor, is a
vice president of the group. The
delegates will travel at their own
expense.
Other delegates named were:
Peter B. Ruffin and Cyrus Hogue.
Wilmington: T. S. Johnson, Ral-
oicrh: N. E. Day. Jacksonville; J.
R. Kittrell, Greenville; William 0
Huske and Hector Blackwell, Fay.
etteville; Otto Walker, Bolhaven;
G. H. Harrison, Williamston ; Ru
dolph Mints'., Southport; Frank W.
Cox, Washington, N. C; J. D. War
lick, Jacksonville; Roy Davis, Man
teo. ALMANAC
BIRTHDAY
Of Famous People
In February
Handell, musician, 1C85.
Gen. John Gurgoyne, 1723.
Enrico Caruso, singer, 1873.
Buffalo Bill, pioneer, 1846.
Henry W. Longfellow, 1807.
Idabel lrvin, actress, 1871.
Pepper Martin, baseball 1904
23.
114.
25.
26.
.27.
28.
20.
HISTORICAL
Events In February
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
Battle Bueno Vista, 1847.
Capture of Vincennes, Ind.,
1779.
First Revolver patented 1836
Napoleon escaped from Elba
1815.
15th Con. Amend't proposed
1869.
First Railroad chartered 1827
II fl II M
Big Crowd Thronged i
Beaufort Gym
Last Night
By J. W. STEWART
Carteret's Annual Tourna
ment got under way last nite
with a tripple header match
ing Morehead Girls with At
lantic, Beaufort Girls with
Newport and Newport Boys
with Smvrna Boys. More
head Girls won over Atlantic
21 to 13, Beaufort GirLs over
Newport 46 to 44, and New
port Boys over Smyrna 45 to
21.
In past years the County Cham
pions have been the girls and boys
team which was winner of the
tournament. However, this year
the Athletic Council agreed that
the team with the highest percent
age of wins during the regular sea
son should be declared the county
champions, thus Newport Boys and
Morehead Girls were declared
champions for this season.
Morehead Atlantic
The Morehead-Atlantie girls
Same started slow, the score at
the end of the 1st quarter was 4 to
2 favor Morehead. Morehead then
had a spurt and the score at the
half stood Morehead 10, Atlantic
)!. The third quarter was slow,
but both teams put out their best
effort during the last quarter with
the final score Morehead 21, At-
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E. A. Hughes, Head
N. C. Census Area In
, , Carteret Last Week
Edward A. Hughes, supervisor
of the North Carolina Census Area,
made a good will trip to Carteret
County last week for the purpose
of acquainting people with the
1940 census now underway. While
here he contacted newspaper edi
tors and prominent business men,
outlining the importance of the
work and urging that the public
give every cooperation to the field
workers.
During the past several days
Steve Dixon of Morehead City has
been taking the business census.
He reported this week that ali
firms, both large and small had
shown an excellent spirit of coop,
eration, and that is good news, be
cause the details listed on the
blanks, will place this County in a
high rank according to population.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Dixon
made the same remark that Mr.
Hughes had made on his visit, that
Carteret would in all probabilities
show up better in the final analy
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Have You Helped The Finns?
Leave Donation At Beaufort News Office.
One Time National Guard Buildings
NOW SERVE AS NYA QUARTERS
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CARTERET NYA activities are now concentrated in the
attractive and well-built structure shown in the above pic
ture. The building was for the most part constructed from
two of the former buildings at Camp Glenn, scene for many
years of the National Guard encampment in this State.
NYA carpenters under the supervision of I. E. Alligood,
erected the building which is being used as working quar
ters for boys and girls who are employed on projects of
National Youth Administration in this county. (Photo by
Roy Eubanks).
Carteret County's Oldest Newspaper
NYA Workers Honor
Serve Delicious
ON THE DAY that Carteret's Board of Commissioners met early in February, the girls
employed on the National Youth Administration project in Beaufort chipped in a nickle
each, and bought food which they prepared themselves In the new NYA building locat
ed on the northeast corner of Courthouse Green and invited the Board of County Com
missioners and other officials to lunch. It was their way of showing appreciation to their
biggest boosters, who have ibown a continued interet in their activities Due to illness of Commissioner
Cleveland Davis of Harkers Island, and due to the fact that Commissioner Raymond K. Davis had been
called to Duke Hospital to furnish blood for a transfusion, they are not included in the picture. Shown
in the picture from left to right: Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners! Com
missioner W. P. Smith, and Commissioner W. Z. McCabe. Sitting at the head of the table is Carteret's
popular Sheriff Gehrmann Holland, who has been making an exceptional record since he went into office;
at his left is Register of Deeds lrvin W. Davis, head of the Democratic Executive Committee in Carteret
who has announced that he will be a candidate to succeed himself as Register of Deeds in the coming elec
tions and Auditor James Potter. The man with mustache and big ears at extreme right is Editor Aycock
Brown of The Beaufort News, who as president of TheRotary Club had detailed various Rotarians to
make short talks to the NYA workers on each Tuesday. Not shown in the picture and the person who
deserves the most credit for the success of NYA activities in Coastal Carteret County, is Mrs. Rosa Mer
rill, supervisor. Following the delicious luncheon, Mrs. Merrill showed the luncheon guests over the new
headquarters building. (Photo by Roy Eubanks, The Photo Shop.)
Albatross
MEAT'S BEST
ADVERTISER
Best advertiser of meats today
is Adolf Hitler of Germany ac
cording to Paul Jones of C. D.
Jones Company. When Mr. Jones
brought his ad (page 8 first sec
tion) in this week he told how he
learned this through a trade jour
nal he receives. The trade journ
al carried a story which indicated
that it had been reported recently
that Hitler ate no meats. Imme
diately when the news became
public, meat sates showed a tre
mendous increase throughout the
nation. And maybe this will give
local housewives a hint for their
next order to C. D. Jones Compa
ny. Order Meat !
LEGAL HOLIDAY
BEING OBSERVED
First Citizens Bank and Trust
Company, the Post Office and a
few public offices are observing
Washington's Birthday today in
Beaufort.
BEAUFORT, N. C, THURSDAY, FEB.
Their Biggest Boosters
Luncheon In Their
378-Ton Trawler Is
Reported To Be
Breaking Up
CREW IS SAVED
Confused by the absence
of charted channel buoys,
swept away by last week's
storm, the 372-ton Albatross,
deep-sea trawler out of Wil
mington, Delaware, ran a
ground off Ocracoke Inlet,
60 miles N. E. of here, on
Wednesday at 5 o'clock and
abandoned by Capt. Dan W.
Hayman and a crew of 15
when she began to break up
in a pounding northeaster
yesterday afternoon.
When the Coast Guard Cutter
Modoc stood by, the lifesaving crew
from Ocracoke Inlet station, led by
Boatswain Stephen Basnight, re
Vessel Weatherbound
At M. City Last Week
The "Albatross' largest trawler
to ever enter Beaufort Inlet was
weatherbound at Morehead City
Port Terminal during the south
west gale of last week which played
minor havoc along the coast.. And,
on the week-end the craft hid ta
seek refuge in Lookout Bight dur
ing the southeast gal J. Last r.r fl
ute news about the v;ssil tnd.-
could not bo obtained as ve g i
press, as the C. G. communication
lir.s to Ocracoke has been out of
commission for several weks c'u
to cable being broken at Drum In
let by dredge which was employed
there recently.
The? accompanying story cover
ed by Manteo correspondent ap
peared in News and Objcrver to.
day. Capt. Hayman, the skipper,
is a brother of Rev. Louis D. Hay
man of Atlantic (former pastor of
Ann Street Methodist Church).
First mate on the craft is Norman
Lewis of Marshallberg and several
members of the crew are from
East Carteret communities. All
were removed safely as the vessel
started breaking up, the Manteo
story indicated.
moved the skipper and crew from
the foundered vessel at noon yes
leiday, relaying them northward
along the Outer Banks from one
Coast Guard station to the next.
Members of the crew were expect
ed in Manteo last night with the
exception of Captain Hayman, who
is standing by ashore to watch the
vessel break up. Rocket signals
from the foundered trawler were
observed from Ocracoke Station
during early morning and Tuesday
night and guardsmen went out in
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Aground
If
Established 1912
22, 1940.
New Quarters
'ciac
Crop-Feed Loans
For 1940 Available
Emergency crop feed loans for
1940 are now available to farmers
in Carteret County, and applica
tions for these loans are now being
received at the County Agent's of
fice by Roy Hearne, Field Super
visor of the Emergency Crop and
Feed Loan Section of th
Farm i
Credit Administration.
These loans will be made, as in
the past, only to farmers whose
cash requirements are small and
who cannot obtain a loan from any
other source, including production
credit associations, banks, or other
private concerns or individuals.
NEW IDLE HOUR
OPENS TONIGHT
Al Cooper's niiignifieent new
Idle Hour Bowling- Alley on Atlan
tic Beach has its gala opening to.
; r.iK'lit, of feriivj varied recreation
! for everyone. New building re
' places old, recently destroyed by
l fire.
oke
Zig-Zag Cruise Of Pelican'
Along South Atlantic Coast
To Reveal
Covering TIic
Waterfront
By AYCOCK BROWN
Dl-;: TO THK I. ATE arrivi-.l cf
some advertising -the coluuir
must be brief anil perhaps poii,:
less this week. Someone saiil tha'
slander stuff I wrote about la.'t
week was pointless others in tu
know, said it was not and at least
one person was ready to send or
chids if there had been any or
chids . . . Lucky break for a pho
tographer of news pictures is to
have a stock shot of a boat that
gets in trouble
I did not have
a picture of the Greek S. S.
Tzenny Chandris that sailed from
M. City and sank off Hatters, and
thus missed a chance to pay off my
mortgages because that pic could
have been sold at my price not
somebody else's . . . But I did have
one of the "Albatross" made at the
port last week when she was seek
ing refuge from the southwester
that was blowing in tanks nearby
. . . That picture became news yes
terday when the Albatross went
aground in Ocracoke Inlet .
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8)
Writes About Local
Waterway Projects
MARBLE CHAMP
HAS A CHANCE
TO GET HONOR
. Tourney Sponsors .
Offering Medal
To Winner
Supervision of marble
tournament in various com
munities of Carteet will be
provided by the WPA Recre
ation unit here which is un
der th6 direction of Mrs. Ve
ra Stubbs. Nehi Bottling
Companies in the Carolinas
are sponsoring the various
events which will lead up to
Southern championship mat
ches at Greensboro in June.
School teachers and marble
shooters interested in the coming
tourneys are asked to contact Mrs.
Stubbs for further information.
Every county in North Carolina is
entitled to at least a winner and
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Recorders Court
Only two cases were disposed of
by Recorder's Court on Tuesday.
Prayer for judgment and contin
ued was ordered in case of Nat
Eborn, charged with assault after
the defendant submitted. Charge
against Albert Jones for bad chuck
was nol pressed.
Beaufort Theatre
Presenting Movies
Of Terrapin Story
Universal News Reel's story of
diamond back terrapin propaga
tion on Piver's Island here, is be
ing shown at The Beaufort Thea
tre today and Friday. ..The se
quence was released under the film
feature title "Going Places" and
j giTes the complete story of how
propagation of the reptilian deli
cacy, first established coopera
tively by the N. C. Department of
Conservation and Development and
U. S. Fisheries and later carried
on by the latter has saved diamond
backs from extinction.
Easily recognized in the picture
and the person who deserves more
credit than anyone else for sav
ing the terrapins is Capt. Charles
Hatsell, assistant to Director Dr.
Prytherch of the Laboratory. The
movies was made by Tye Sanders
of Universal last summer. At the
same time Fox Movietone's M. D.
Cooke made a similar picture story
but his reels has not been released
to date.
Habits Of Shrimp
William W. Anderson
Is In Charge Of
Investigation
VESSEL BASED HERE
FOR SEVERAL DAY3
To definitely determine it'
there is an off shore concen
tration of shrimp along the
coast between Fort Pierce,
Florida, and Cape Hatteras,
N the purpo-v of th 'n't-'d
;-t,.tt"j' "ureau of F'.-hen'es
and that important looking
boat, painted a battleship
grav, which was moored to
! inlet Inn dock for several re
cent days is the vessel on
which the investigations are
being made. William W.
Anderson. Assistant Aquat
ic Biologist, U. S. B. F., is in
charge of the cruise.
The vessel is the "Pelican," of
the U. S. Fisheries, New Orlean's
station. Capt. Edgar L. Raymond
is skipper of the "Pelican" which
has been sailing a zig-zag course
f tw the beach to the 100-fathom
"ve., (ranging from 40 to 90
a off shore) on the cruise
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BEAUFORT NEWS
Is Only Newspaper
That Gives A Hoot
About -- BEAUFORT
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IMF Pail iu
Promises To Stick
In Fight To Get
Needed Work
Whether Beaufort Harbor
and a number of compara
tively small (in cost) but
vastly important waterway
projects in North Carolina
and especially in the sectioM
between Ocracoke and Beau
fort Inlets are allotted ap
propriations so that the much
needed work can begin this
year depends largely on the
decision of the Senate Com
merce Committee of which
Sentor Josiah W. Bailey is
chairman.
If the appropriations are not
not made by the government this
year, it means that the projects
which have been given the full ap
proval of U. S. Engineers will not
be started for two and possibly
three years, according to reliable
information furnished this news
paper by high officials. Every ef
fort is being made to secure the
necessary appropriations for the
work by Senator Bailey, and in a
letter to Aycock Brown, secretary
of The Chamber iff Commerce and
editor of The Beaufort News, he
explained in detail the exact sta
tus, up until the latest hearing rel
ative to the matter before the com
mittee. (This hearing originally
scheduled for Tuesday, February
13, was postponed due to illness of
Senator Bailey.)
Excerpts of the Senator's letter
to Brown relative to the projects
and especially Beaufort Harbor,
where it is proposed to enlarge the
present basin and extend a depth
of 12 feet to a distance of 600
feet in width and one block far
ther eastward, all of which would
cost approximately $54,000, which
is considered as pin money by our
present Administration, follows:
Senators Letter
"I am greatly interested in the
North Carolina projects in the pen
ding River and Harbor Bill. .. The
sum total of all our projects comes
to about four million dollars. It
ght get through Congress, but
the President has indicated that ba
will veto it, and it is this situation
that is giving me difficulty. The
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Chairs Needed For
Boy Scouts' Hut
James Biggs, assistant scoutmas
ter of the Beaufort troop stated
this week that the Boys Scout Hut
which is being renovated for use)
as headquarters for the newly
formed organization is in need of
chairs. Any person who has some
chairs which they would donate to
the hut for the use of the boys wiH
be doing a good turn. Notify Mr.
Biggs, any of the Scouts or thin
newspaper if you have chairs whicli
you could contribute for this use.
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Beiiupo',t is givn in this
column. The figures are ap
proximately correct and are
based oti tables furnished by
the U. S. Geodetic Survey
Some allowances must be
ivrvle for vavbti"' in tin
win) pre! also with resp ct
tn the Incn'jiv tat is wh-,l
er near th" inl-'t o at tin
hi-.-ii ; h, isuiaiii-s.
HIGH LOW
Friday, Feb. 23
7:56 A.M. 1:46 A.M.
8:23 P. M. 2:18 P. M.
Saturday, Feb. 24
8:47 A. M. 2:37 A. M.
9:14 P. M. 3:05 P. M.
Sunday, Feb. 25
49:07 A. M. 3:27 A. M.
10:05 P. M. 3:51 P. M.
Monday, Feb. 26
10:26 A.M. 4:19 A.M.
10:57 P. M. 4:30 P. M.
Tuesday, Feb. 27
5:12 A.M.
11:16 P.M. 5:30 P.M.
Wednesday, Feb. 28
11:49 A.M. 6:09 A.M.
12:07 P. M. 6:27 P. M.
Thursday, Feb. 29
12:45 A. M. 7:12 A. VL.
1:04 P.M. 7:29 P.M.